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You don't have to like an actor to do a scene with him. You don't have to like a director. But it's just better if you do. And I think, you know, you've got to begin that with respect.

Actor Begin Better Director
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I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely confident that, whatever is required of my character, I can do it.

Absolutely Actor Character Confident
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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

Against Always Apparently Artifice
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War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

About Actually Also Benefit
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The Americans love Aussies, but they're actually quite afraid of us at the same time because they think we're insane. Then they see our sports - league, union, and AFL - and that makes them even more worried.

Actually Afraid American Because
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

Actual Found He His
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An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

Actor Need Stabilize Personality
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We must guard against disrespectful, disparaging, and criticizing thoughts. We must try to practice reverence and devotion in our thinking at all times.

Against Criticizing Devotion Disrespectful
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I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and sometimes find myself regurgitating almost unconsciously.

Almost Because Beyond Clearly
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Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem!

American Consistently Data Facts
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My gosh, I love food. If I wasn’t an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.
Love food An actor Different body
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I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

A lawyer Journalist University
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It's not really the job of a public servant to inspire, but to get the job that the people demand done. The Democrats think that if they have hope and are inspired, things will get better, but they actually won't.

Actually Better Demand Democrats
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The activity of being a husband, a father - those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that's what's most important.

The activity Husband Father Underneath
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Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

Sometimes Places Characters Emotions
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Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.

I believe Frightening Realize
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It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

Acting My life My heart
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We should actively explore new fields of cooperation to diversify the forms of exchange and give a greater impetus to the development of bilateral relations.

Actively explore Diversify Exchange
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Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.
Practice good Personal hygiene Wash Hands
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After my 1985 appearance on 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,' I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom.

Act After Appearance Hollywood
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Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that of humanity in the fifteenth century, let alone before and at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, is to sleep through the process of world evolution.

Alone Before Century Character
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In order for the students' development and the outer development of civilization to coincide, we need a faculty whose interest is not limited to specialized educational practices. Rather, this faculty must be fully involved in the broader aspects of life.

Aspects Broader Civilization Coincide
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The essential and living elements in our architectural activities stem from what was implanted in us during Old Saturn evolution.

Activities Architectural Elements Essential
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Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

Aspects Building Character Educated
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In earthly life, a person can conceal whether evil or good is active in his soul. After death, this is no longer possible. The spirit form presents after death the physiognomical expression of what the person was on earth.

Active After Conceal Death
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When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

Ideas Important Cover Hold
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You have to be able to toss the thing out. You can't fall in love with your characters, and you have to know when to fight - and when to quit.

Able Characters Fall Fight
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I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

Basis Continue France Friendly
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To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

Character Free Free People Impose
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Character Imagination Society Solitude
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Action Beautiful Less Lovely
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Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.

Above Britain Characterized Independence
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For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

Facing Fact Faith Lots
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Trust me, if I were gay I'd be getting more action than I'm getting now.

Action Gay Getting Me
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

Character Conscientious Duty Energetic
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I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

Am Animate Character I Am
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When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

About Activity Any Cleaned
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When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.

Actually Almost Come May
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I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.

Audience Been Being Bother
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You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.

Actor Anything Black Control
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The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy.

About Acting Also Dark
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I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

Actor All My Life Athlete Been
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To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.

About Built Celebrity Character
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I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

Act Am Because Everything
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When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.

Actor Actress Business Camera
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I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.

Any Career Classical College
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Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.

Actually Beautiful Because Cello
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Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.

Actually Binding Bondage Clothes
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I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.

Ability Actor Feel Granted
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

All My Life Been Being Life
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